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fmueller | 9 years ago

Nothing a company builds is free. And I think it's better to pay with money than with data. Not saying you're not paying with both here.

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FilterSweep|9 years ago

> Not saying you're not paying with both here.

If Facebook's "Open Internet" (Read: "Walled Garden") denied by India is any indication, you're unfortunately paying more for the service with your personal data than you are with any money.

bigboris|9 years ago

Absolutely. Money is once...you pay it to someone, they pay it to someone else, they no longer have it. When you pay someone with your data, they have that forever and can monetize it hundreds of different ways over and over long after you've moved on or stopped using whatever you got from them.

thasaleni|9 years ago

One question we fail to ask, when we compare money to personal data, is how much is that data worth to you, when it's not being monetized by some company x?